Payr is building innovative online banking services for consumers and businesses. Our first product is a payment service making it easier to pay bills for people in the Nordics. We already have a great team in place. But we are missing a driven, curios and talented co-founder & CTO to join our team at our offices at MESH in Oslo. Not only will you be working in a hot, new Fintech startup with exciting technical challenges, you will be a vital part of our team of clever people, and bring your voice to the table on how to run and scale this company. Your investments: Work sweat for equity until raising capital (important that you have a financial situation able to cover own living expenses for a while). Competitive salary after raising capital. Commit full-time to the company.

Responsibilities

• Define the development stack, technical roadmap and IT framework in collaboration with the Payr Product Managers.
• Recruit, manage and mentor a top-class development team
• Create a high performance, innovative, collaborative, continuous learning and improving technology culture
• Part of the executive team: Identify technology-related opportunities and risks for delivering the company’s services including technology
• Design and implement business strategies, plans and procedures
• Manage relationships with partners/vendors & government
• Set goals for performance and growth
• Oversee IT budgets to make sure there are no unnecessary expenditures
• Develop and direct safeguards to reduce the risk of outside breaches, fraud and compliance
• Evaluate new technology and make recommendations on technological solutions
• Make presentations to the board of directors and CEO
• Identify competitive advantages and technological trends for the benefit of the company

Skills and qualifications

• Previous held a role as tech lead, engineering manager or CTO role
• Experience from building large backend solutions / Architect
• Experience with large amounts of data
• ?Experience in building web and mobile applications.
• Great understanding of product oriented technical development
• Commercial and business understanding
• Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skill. A solid public speaker

Bonus points:

• Experience from a start-up
• Bsc. or Msc. in Computer Science
• Experience from a fin-tech environment or payment tech company.
• Experience with speaking at conferences
• Experience with large amounts of data and data science project experience

We offer:

You will be working with a truly passionate product team consisting of product manager, service designer, user tester, UX designer, graphics designer and backend developers. Our founders have started several successful ventures and we very clear on the unique culture we are trying to build. Not only will you be working in a hot, new Fintech startup with team of talented engineers and designers, you will be a vital part of our company and bring your voice to the table on how to build our first generation of mobile applications. The right person will be rewarded handsomely in love, respect, money and equity.

Apply here: https://first-engineers.workable.com/jobs/478054/candidates/new